Attraction.

I love people. Too much sometimes. However, I don't love people; want their affection, pine over them. I used to, but there was one problem: I felt unhappy about myself, and unhappy people never have happy relationships. As a young, pubescent, high school underclassman, I often fantasized about finding someone that fancied me, only when they did, I was too scared to get too close. Nothing terrified me more than the possibility that they didn't feel the same way about me! I'm no longer that way: I'm confident and joyful, especially without a significant other. In fact, I don't want anyone. Girls my age talk about their future, saying "When I get married, when I have kids"....why when? How do you know that it'll happen? There's no predicting the future, but if I were to say that about anything, it'd be my career. I know that I love music. I know that I love helping others. Therefore, after finding myself, I can honestly say that when I get older, I will be a music therapist, and possibly obtain a PhD in developmental psychology. I can't tell you that I'm going to marry someone and have eight children. Hell, I don't know that I want children, and I think that's very healthy for my age; I want a career, and naturally, everything else will fall in place.
I'm happily alone, and in no way lonely. If you're not happy on your own, you can't truly be happy with your significant other. Maybe you will be for a while, but when things get rough, the relationship falls apart.
But I'm not here to talk about myself like the narcissist I am.
Within my social circle, there are few boys, and many, many girls. Because there's one guy for every ten girls, relationships get a little sticky, and boys become unfaithful. In this case,  all of the chickadees can't deny this one guy: the straight-from-General Hospital, gorgeous, sensitive, jaded, flirtatious, and horribly unfaithful Aidan. Aidan appears to be more mature than the other boys, but everyone he's been with eventually hates him. Yet, the girls still pine over him uncontrolably. I guess that men aren't the only horny ones! They like the idea that they're his favorite 'one and only', when he's really seeing ten other people. He manipulates them, uses them, and leaves them with a bitter taste in their mouths.
Recently, he's stooped to a new low.
He chose to pursue the kind, soft spoken, intelligent, naive Elaine. Elaine's a younger girl that I find charming and realistic, which is why I think it's strange that she's so entranced with him. Of course, she fell for his lies, but now, when others tell her about their recent escapades with Aidan, she denies his involvement.
My Holden Caulfield complex wants me to yell "Stop! You're going to tumble through the rye and off the cliff! You'll end up in the hospital, covered in bruises!" , but the realistic side of myself knows that no matter what I do, she won't listen. The only way that she'll learn is by falling off that cliff, and getting a concussion so terrible that she'll suffer a comatose. Naturally, I want to prevent it, but we must learn through our own mistakes. All I can do is watch, and if she allows it, help mend Elaine back to health. Aidan may never change, but Elaine will grow from it.
This kind of thing happens to every girl in one way or another. We find love, lose it, feel tremendous pain, and eventually find happiness and reconciliation.
If only I could speed up the process.